A few years ago, I was the CTO and cofounder of a startup in the medical practice management software space. One of the problems we were trying to solve was how medical office visit schedules can ...

Before you can analyze and visualize data, you have to get that data into R. There are various ways to do this, depending on how your data is formatted and where it’s located. Usually, the function ...

R is an open source programming language especially designed for manipulating data and performing statistical analysis. It is very similar to SAS Enterprise Guide except: R is a programming language.

R gives the capability of creating many graphical displays. These displays are used to view data in an easier and more concise way. In other words, graphs can help us make better sense of what happens ...

In addition to being open source (i.e. FREE, which is awesome!), there is a large and constantly growing community of people sharing their "R packages" (which is even more awesome!). These packages ...